Brickbat: Who Are You Going to Believe?

Caldwell County, Texas, sheriff's deputies say Larry Faulkenberry attacked them, knocking a deputy into a tree and injuring him. They arrested him for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, among other charges. But Faulkenberry's security video showed he didn't attack them or even resist arrest. In fact, it showed deputies beating him up. Prosecutors dropped all charges after seeing the video. But so far, none of the deputies involved has been disciplined or charged with a crime. In fact, in a response to a lawsuit filed by Faulkenberry, the sheriff's office insists that the deputies' account of what happened is correct.

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Damn,the kid was pissed and called the cops? He could have gotten his dad killed.And yes,the cops committed perjury and assault and other crimes.I hope he gets a big settlement and uses some of the money to ship his son off to military school.

That’s a pretty nifty little article you linked to. I would recommend the rest of you read it and do the little tests.

It shows that all those ‘prosecutor can’t tell for certain what happened so cop doesn’t get charged’ stories *slightly* more understandable (at least from a theoretical point of view). If you’re not certain then you *should* err on the side of innocence.

It’s so easy to ruin a person’s life,or get them killed with a call to the cops. It would have been evident that the kid was lying but the cops just charged in,Cops didn’t even try to assess the situation any more. That’s how you end up with a dead 12 year old in Cleveland.

He was asking for it. A clear cut case of failure to follow a lawful order if ever there was one. Then he admittedly swore at the officers, and I bet he said worse than he claims he did. Play stupid games….